Paul and Le Pen

By BEN SMITH

10/14/2011 11:09 AM EDT

French nationalist leader Marine Le Pen (daughter of Jean-Marie) will be meeting Ron Paul during a U.S. trip in early November, Le Journal de Dimanche reports, drawing a non-committal response from his spokeswoman: "Rep. Paul is also open to a meeting with all the other candidates [for the French presidency]."

Le Pen praised him in the story as "a great defender of an international monetary system based on the gold standard," but said she herself would be considered "very left wing" in the United States.